BEES talisman Simon Hunt looks to have played his last game for the club after accepting full-time contract with the England Sevens squad.

The 29-year-old insists he has not definitely ruled out a return to Damson Park for next season but has set his sights on making the Rugby Sevens World Cup in Russia in 2013.

He is also due to start a teacher training course this September and expects to be hard pressed to have the time to travel up to Birmingham at least three times a week.

“Never say never, it’s not impossible, but I don’t know whether I am going to play XVs at all next season,” Hunt said.

“World Cup-wise this will be my last chance, I am going to be 30 soon and if I want to get there I have to focus on my Sevens just to try and get another contract for next season.

“If I don’t get that contract, at least I have done everything I could have done and I’d bow out knowing I’d at least made it to a Commonwealth Games.”

And Hunt admitted that if he has played his last game for Bees, he will have reached that decision with a heavy heart. “There would be an element of sadness because it’s been a crazy time. I have never known so many ups and downs,” he said.

“There was the joy of going up in the first season, then the shenanigans with the planning permission, looking like we’d played our last game and then staying up on the last day on that season.

“Going down last year was very painful. Sometimes things run their natural course and I feel it might have done that.”

Hunt has spent three seasons at Bees and broke the club’s scoring record.